A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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